No Yucca Should Mean 'Yes' Recycling

摘要

Located in northwest France, Areva's La Hague is the largest nuclear fuel reprocessing/recycling plant in the world. Right now, 40 years of France's nuclear waste is stored in three storage halls at La Hague -- 9,500 containers containing vitrified nuclear waste in pits that are 20 meters deep. Areva invited 10 journalists for a tour of some of its French nuclear facilities. It's possible that the US will be able to solve the problem in a similar manner. With Yucca Mountain apparently off the table and 118 operating and shut-down reactors with waste issues, perhaps it's time for some of the decision makers to take a tour like the author did.